I WOULD like to correct the anonymous "B. Veryafraid" (Your Letters, July 30).
I never mentioned unregulated use of CCTV cameras or wire-tapping, cryptography, or any other so-called "insidious erosions" of our freedom.
Being naive -as "B. Veryafraid" put it - I thought the law decided what was right or wrong in these matters.
I am well aware of the origins of "Big Brother" and, maybe like "B. Veryafraid", I have learned quite a lot from life.
As a voluntary visitor for Victim Support, I was commended by the police for visiting 750 people in just three years. They were suffering from such things as burglary, assault, rape and a number of petty crimes and I am quite sure that if you had asked them whether they minded having cameras mounted to apprehend perpetrators their answer would have been a resounding "Yes".
K. SOWERBUTTS
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